CHAPTER VI. 

 A Plea for the Pony 



AMERICA is the only country in the world 

 which does not actively utilise the pony, 

 in some of his many varying heights and 

 weights, hoth for pleasure and business. Of course 

 this has hitherto been reasonably attributed to the 

 fact that horses of all kinds were so cheap that no 

 special reason existed for drawing to any extent upon 

 the ranks of the smaller fry to take the place and per- 

 form the duties so inexpensively rendered by the 

 larger; and again there has always existed the 

 feeling that it was infra dig. for the grown man or 

 woman, or the tradesman, to be seen behind these 

 Liliputians — an opinion which, while somewhat 

 weakened, still holds good in the majority of 

 instances. 



This is all fast changing, and the pony, or his 



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